- Published: 5 July 2022
- ISBN: 9781847927231
- Imprint: Bodley Head
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 144
- RRP: $35.00
The Twilight World
Discover the first novel from the iconic filmmaker Werner Herzog
- Published: 5 July 2022
- ISBN: 9781847927231
- Imprint: Bodley Head
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 144
- RRP: $35.00
(praise for Of Walking In Ice:) Herzog's existential journey through a hostile winter landscape is one of the great modern pilgrimages - a record of physical suffering, of hallucination and ecstatic revelation, of portents and animals, of the wreckage of history and myth. Of Walking in Ice has the eerie power of the best fairytales. It hits you with the force of dreams and leaves you with the taste of snow-filled air
Helen MacDonald, author H is for Hawk
(praise for Of Walking In Ice:) Surely the strangest, strongest walking book I know, it tells the story of a winter pilgrimage, made in desperation and in hope. At once a diary, a blizzard of weather and memories, and the record of a ritual: only Herzog could have written this weird, slender classic
Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland
(Praise for Conquest of the Useless:) Hypnotic... Any book by Mr. Herzog...turns his devotees into cryptographers. It is ever tempting to try to fathom his restless spirit and his determination to challenge fate
New York Times
The Twilight World...is very cinematic: indeed, it feels like a film unspooling inside Herzog's head as you read
Daily Telegraph
Beautiful... Nobody else could have written The Twilight World. It is pure Herzog
Sunday Times
Herzog's writing bristles with the same eerie and uncompromising energy as his films. His jungle pulses with hallucinatory life
Guardian
Herzog's skills as a filmmaker and dramatist serve the narrative well... In spare, elegant prose, he analyses how isolation effects Onoda... The Twilight World is an austere book, and a wise one
Literary Review
This is Herzog's debut novel - and it is beautifully crafted, a literary jewel set to sparkle against the backdrop of his monumental career in cinema
i
Herzog...brilliantly blends fact and fiction in this fever dream of a novel, which shimmers with the single-minded strangeness of Onoda's thoughts and feelings
Daily Mail
The true story is extraordinary in its own right, but Herzog's concise yet meandering account of unending loyalty, resilience and desolation transmutes Onoda's personal history into a poetic tragedy
Eastern Daily Press
An enthralling novel that explores the nature of time and warfare with great mastery
Mail on Sunday
A mesmerising account
Financial Times
A Hemingway-esque novella
Daily Telegraph